Wu Yibing

Injuries and a default meant both the semi-finals and the final in Beijing ended in walkovers, a state of affairs summing up how tennis faces a reckoning with its bloated and brutal calendar

Four Chinese players, Buyunchaokete, Wu Yibing, Zhang Zhizhen and Zhou Yi, have also made it into the main draw through wildcards, and are expected to make the most of the highest-level home tournament to gauge their own progress against the world's elites

Four Chinese players, Buyunchaokete, Wu Yibing, Zhang Zhizhen and Zhou Yi, have also made it into the main draw through wildcards, and are expected to make the most of the highest-level home tournament to gauge their own progress against the world's elites

Zhang, competing at her fourth Asian Games, defeated second-seeded Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan 6-4, 6-2

Zhang, competing at her fourth Asian Games, defeated second-seeded Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan 6-4, 6-2

Zhang, competing at her fourth Asian Games, defeated second-seeded Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan 6-4, 6-2

Zhang, competing at her fourth Asian Games, defeated second-seeded Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan 6-4, 6-2

Kareem, 18, won the women's 400m hurdles in 54.31 seconds, lowering the previous Games record of 54.45 set by Bahrain's Oluwakemi Adekoya at Hangzhou in 2023

The 21-year-old Chinese competed in four table tennis events at the 2026 Asian Games and left with three gold medals and a silver, winning the men's singles, mixed doubles and men's doubles titles

After some apparent opening jitters, and playing hesitantly on the baseline, Wu stepped up his game toward the end of the first set, dictated play with aggressive groundstrokes in the second and then kept his intensity to close out the match 7-6 (2), 6-2, 7-5 against the Aussie power server in two hours and 24 minutes on Court 11

Matteo Berrettini chased after Stan Wawrinka to give the retiring star a gift

Djokovic was forced to extend himself against China’s Yibing Wu, but dug deep to begin his Wimbledon bid at the age of 39

Even with the early exit of "Queen Wen" catching fans off guard, Chinese tennis has swung off its French Open campaign with plenty to cheer about, as a group of its elite players launched their major comeback with flying colors in Paris

Even with the early exit of "Queen Wen" catching fans off guard, Chinese tennis has swung off its French Open campaign with plenty to cheer about, as a group of its elite players launched their major comeback with flying colors in Paris

Even with the early exit of "Queen Wen" catching fans off guard, Chinese tennis has swung off its French Open campaign with plenty to cheer about, as a group of its elite players launched their major comeback with flying colors in Paris

Zheng, a proud winner of China's first singles Olympic gold medal at the same venue at Paris 2024, was dealt a head-on blow in her attempt to regain her form at Roland Garros, following a long injury layoff, suffering a straight-sets defeat to Chwalinska in an early tournament upset on Monday

In April 2024, China's top decision-making body first proposed "bolstering patient capital" -- a directive now enshrined in the new five-year plan

The plan also serves as China's "construction blueprint" for the coming five years and sends a clear signal of continued opening-up and coordinated development, offering a cooperation framework to global partners, and injecting much-needed certainty into the world economy

Arango won the first set 6-2, then lost the second 6-1 and trailed 2-0 in the third when she halted the match

Ranked No 46 in the world, Wang hit 10 aces in a 6-3, 6-3 first-round victory in one hour and 33 minutes